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Black Directors: The Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films

Ranked by average rating. The list was extracted largely thanks to this megalist of films directed by Black directors. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• This list includes Black co-directors or any Black directors on a diverse team.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

This list is by no means a definitive canon of Black directors in film history.…

  • 12 Years a Slave

    8

  • 25th Hour

    52

  • American Fiction

    90

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    50

  • Bad Black

    42

  • Bamako

    92

  • Bamboozled

    57

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Black Girl

    12

  • BlacKkKlansman

    32

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    39

  • Boyz n the Hood

    15

  • A Bruddah's Mind

    89

  • Bush Mama

    37

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    11

  • Chameleon Street

    69

  • The Child of Another

    71

  • Chocolate Babies

    30

  • Coach Carter

    81

  • Coffee With Cinnamon

    73

  • Compensation

    48

  • Crazy World

    43

  • Creed

    70

  • Crooklyn

    47

  • Daughters of the Dust

    93

  • D.E.B.S.

    99

  • Deep Cover

    40

  • Do the Right Thing

    3

  • Drylongso

    51

  • Earth Mama

    98

  • Education

    66

  • Emitaï

    46

  • Eve's Bayou

    76

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    88

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    96

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    79

  • Fruitvale Station

    33

  • Get Out

    9

  • Goodbye Julia

    38

  • Hunger

    23

  • Hyenas

    18

  • I Am Not a Witch

    61

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    36

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    19

  • Killer of Sheep

    31

  • The Killing Floor

    83

  • Les Misérables

    58

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    29

  • Looking for Langston

    20

  • Losing Ground

    55

  • Love Jones

    82

  • Lovers Rock

    16

  • Malcolm X

    4

  • Mandabi

    75

  • Mangrove

    10

  • Mars One

    49

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Moolaadé

    28

  • Moonlight

    6

  • Mudbound

    87

  • My Brother's Wedding

    95

  • Nickel Boys

    27

  • Oh, Sun

    21

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    85

  • One False Move

    94

  • On the Count of Three

    63

  • Paid in Full

    72

  • Pariah

    24

  • Personal Problems

    22

  • Pressure

    68

  • Red, White and Blue

    67

  • Rye Lane

    44

  • Saint Omer

    86

  • Sambizanga

    56

  • Selma

    77

  • Set It Off

    100

  • Shame

    80

  • Sidewalk Stories

    60

  • Sinners

    5

  • Sometimes in April

    62

  • Sorry to Bother You

    91

  • Soul

    35

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    1

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    2

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    34

  • The Story of a Three-Day

    54

  • Straight Outta Compton

    74

  • Submarine

    53

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    64

  • Supa Modo

    65

  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    17

  • A Thousand and One

    78

  • Timbuktu

    84

  • To Sleep with Anger

    41

  • Touki Bouki

    59

  • Training Day

    26

  • Watermelon Man

    97

  • The Watermelon Woman

    14

  • West Indies

    13

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    7